Tour in ho chi minh city vietnam

The Cultural Heritage Association of Ho Chi Minh City and the People's Committee of District 1 kick-started a series of activities on Saturday to celebrate Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day (November 23). The activities included a walk for a clean and green environment, a performance of the Vietnamese 'ao dai' of different periods, and a parade of vintage cars, motorbikes, and bicycles. A parade of vintage vehicles marking Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day in Ho Chi Minh City, November 19, 2022. Photo: T.T.D. / Tuoi Tre The opening ceremony took place at Nguyen Van Binh Book Street in the morning after delegates offered flowers at the statue of President Ho Chi Minh. A design completion and awarding ceremony summarizing the series of activities were held in the evening. An 'ao dai' performance marking Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day in Ho Chi Minh City, November 19, 2022. Photo: T.T.D. / Tuoi Tre These activities aim to raise awareness of the importance … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City organizes activities to mark Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day

Tourism authorities are mulling over connecting tourism products and attractions in Ho Chi Minh City with those in neighboring Dong Nai Province. A delegation of representatives from 40 travel agencies and tourism organizations last weekend took a familiarization (FAM) trip from Ho Chi Minh City to Bien Hoa City in Dong Nai by train. After arriving in Bien Hoa, the delegation visited local tourist attractions such as Tran Bien Temple of Literature, Vuon Xoai Ecotourism Site, Son Tien tourist area, Buu Long tourist area, Dong Nai College of Decorative Arts where visitors learned to make pottery with local artisans, Thien Tam tourist area where visitors experienced mud and mineral bath services, Nha Vien and K’Tan restaurants, and more. Tour operator Le Thi Thu Huong from the Golden Holiday travel company expressed her excitement at joining a railway tour from Ho Chi Minh City to Bien Hoa for the first time. Although the journey was short, tourists can see landscapes and … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City, neighboring Dong Nai eye inter-provincial railway tours

The International Photography Festival 2022, the first of its kind to be held in Vietnam, is scheduled to take place in Ho Chi Minh City from November 25 to 30. An award-winning piece at an international photo contest will be displayed in the festival. The highlight of the occasion will be an international photography fair held at the Ho Chi Minh City Youth’s Cultural House to showcase an array of award-winning pieces from photo contests around the globe. On display will be a range of equipment and new technology used in photography, whilst activities of photography clubs from across the country will be introduced. A seminar on contemporary photography, exchanges between Vietnamese and foreign artists, as well as a photo marathon and photo tour contests will also get underway. Furthermore, an award ceremony of the second international photo contest organised by the HCM City Photography Association under the sponsorship of the International Federation of … [Read more...] about HCM City to host first International Photography Festival 2022

Tours to Qatar to watch the 2022 FIFA World Cup is increasingly popular among Vietnamese travelers even though they cost around VND150-300 million (US$6,000-12,000). After the opening ceremony of the 2022 World Cup took place, Vietnamese fans’ demand for tours to Qatar to watch the international sports event has gradually increased, said Ngo Minh Duc, chairman of Gotadi Company. The demand for tickets to the quarterfinals, semifinals, and finale is currently the highest, Duc continued. Gotadi has been serving nearly 80 guests to Qatar to watch the 2022 World Cup, he added. “These package tours with a specific departure schedule have a fairly high price, and the target customers are group and family travelers,” Duc elaborated. Hoan My Travel Company is also offering tours to Qatar to enjoy the World Cup final. Tourists will depart on December 17 with a price of VND215 million ($8,600) per person for four days and three nights. Hong Ngoc Ha Company, the exclusive … [Read more...] about Vietnamese spend big on tours to watch 2022 World Cup in Qatar

Participating in the tour, visitors will learn about the historical relic of the secret base of the Saigon - Gia Dinh Party Committee. They will admire the architectural and art relic of Binh Tay Market, the largest commercial center of the Chinese in Vietnam and visit famous historical and cultural destinations and craft villages. With this new product, Ho Chi Minh City's tourism industry wishes to attract more domestic and foreign tourists and help them better understand the city's diverse culture and development history. Below are photos of destinations that tourists will explore during the tour. Translated by Tran Hoai … [Read more...] about Tour launched for visitors to explore Cho Lon

Hanoi is honored as the World's Leading City Break Destination 2022. Hanoi, including travel agencies in the capital, keep receiving prestigious awards from many international organizations, showing the resilience of the capital's tourism after Covid-19. Delegates from Hanoi receive the World's Leading City Break Destination 2022 Award. Photos: WTA The Grand Final Gala Ceremony of the 29th World Travel Awards 2022 on November 11 in Muscat, Oman, honored Hanoi as the World's Leading City Break Destination 2022. The World Travel Awards (WTA) is considered the “Oscar of the world travel industry”, an annual search for the world's finest travel and tourism organizations. This is an important award category in the WTA’s award system, focusing on evaluating criteria related to the attractiveness of short-term resort activities, and tourist experiences in cities around the world, according to the Hanoi Department of Tourism. Director of the municipal Department … [Read more...] about Resilience of Hanoi’s tourism

The number of international visitors to Hanoi in 11 months has reached 1.27 million, meeting the target set for the whole year of 2022. In the first eleven months of 2022, about 17 million visitors have chosen Hanoi as their destination, up five times from the same period last year, according to the municipal Tourism Department. The figure includes 1.27 million international tourists and 15.75 million domestic arrivals. Tourism revenue is estimated at VND48.35 trillion (US$1.9 billion), increasing five times on year. In November alone, Hanoi hosted 1.61 million visitors, including 1.35 million from other localities nationwide and 255,000 foreigners, and earned VND4.39 trillion ($176 million) from tourism, five times higher than the same period last year. Foreign tourists visit the Temple of Literature in Hanoi. Photo: Quang Thai/The Hanoi Times Notably, the total number of international visitors to Hanoi in 11 months has reached 1.27 million, fulfilling … [Read more...] about Visitors to Hanoi rise five times in Jan-Nov

The number of international visitors to Hanoi in 11 months has reached 1.27 million, meeting the full-year target. In the first eleven months of 2022, about 17 million visitors have chosen Hanoi as their destination, up five times from the same period last year, according to the municipal Tourism Department. The figure includes 1.27 million international tourists and 15.75 million domestic arrivals. Tourism revenue is estimated at VND48.35 trillion (US$1.9 billion), increasing five times on year. In November alone, Hanoi hosted 1.61 million visitors, including 1.35 million from other localities nationwide and 255,000 foreigners, and earned VND4.39 trillion ($176 million) from tourism, five times higher than the same period last year. Foreign tourists visit the Temple of Literature in Hanoi. Photo: Quang Thai/The Hanoi Times Notably, the total number of international visitors to Hanoi in 11 months has reached 1.27 million, fulfilling the target set for … [Read more...] about Visitors to Hanoi increases five times in Jan-Nov

EXHIBITION Hanoi-Don’t Call It Art 19 Nov – 31 Dec 2022 Mơ Art Space B3 Floor, no. 136 Hang Trong Street, Hoan Kiem District From the organizer: “I could not imagine then that some of these photos would become the only documentation, for example, of the first stirrings of a performance art scene in Vietnam. Now, 25 years later in Germany – as an observer or a temporary visitor at best, who gleans news about Vietnam’s well-connected international art scene from daily social network chats with friends there – all these works and photos appear to me in quite a different light. They are no longer just gifts, pictures forgotten or discarded as worthless, but rather artworks that have written contemporary history. They had once been a provocative force in their time and place. Here today, this force may seem spent. But to me, now more than ever, it seems as if the artists presented in this book, with their radical stances, were far ahead of their time. Perhaps … [Read more...] about What’s on November 21-27/2022

Rescuers found a Singaporean man and a Vietnamese woman, who were lost in the Bidoup-Nui Ba national park in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, on Tuesday afternoon after several hours of searching. The two people, 22-year-old Singaporean N.Cheun Han K. and 21-year-old Vietnamese K.H.T.T., who lives in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, were both in stable health upon the rescue. Police in Lac Duong District, Lam Dong received a report that two people were lost in the Bidoup-Nui Ba national park on Monday morning. The duo traveled by taxi from Da Lat, the capital city of Lam Dong, to the Lang Biang tourism area, which is adjacent to the national park, earlier on the same morning. They followed trails to the forest and could not find the way out. After being rescued, they were safely taken back to the Lang Biang tourism area on Tuesday afternoon. Authorities warn people, especially visitors, against arbitrarily going into the forest without tour guides. … [Read more...] about Missing Singaporean visitor, Vietnamese companion found in Central Highlands forest